Sebastian Lockwood

Sebastian Lockwood is the author of Headless in Hancock, Murder in Hancock and the forthcoming Cars in Hancock. As a storyteller he performs the epics: Gilgamesh, Homer’s Odyssey, Beowulf and Monkey a Journey to the West. Lockwood has taught Visual Anthropology, the Epics and creative writing in higher education. He graduated from Boston University and studied Education and Anthropology as a graduate student at Cambridge University. He lives with his wife, Nanette Perrotte, in a 1792 house in Greenfield, NH.

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Sebastian Lockwood's Programs

Caesar: The Man from Venus

Meet Caesar, who is descended from the Goddess Venus. This program introduces Caesar as a young boy living with his Mother, Aurelia, and his Aunt Julia, two women who will shape the boy who will be the most powerful man on earth. Using a rich variety of texts, Sebastian Lockwood shows Caesar as a man who clearly saw his destiny and fulfilled that destiny with the help of remarkable women – Cleopatra amongst them. A poet, historian, linguist, architect, general, politician, and engineer, was he truly of the Populi party for the People of Roma? Or a despot and tyrant? This performance shows Caesar as a remarkable genius who transformed his world in ways that still resonate today. 

Homer's Odysseus

Using the well known scenes of The Odyssey, Sebastian Lockwood delivers the passion and intensity of the great epic that deserves to be heard told as it was by bards in the days of old. Lockwood says, "The best compliment is when a ten-year-old comes up and says, 'I felt like I was there.'" That is the magic of the performance that takes students and adults alike back into the text. The following Q & A can focus on translations and the storytelling techniques used by Homer. 

The Epic of Gilgamesh

This is our earliest epic. It is at least four thousand years old, but in performance we discover a dynamic and thrilling tale of heroes, friendship, battles with a monster, and death, followed by a journey to the other world to meet Utnapishtin, whom we know as Noah. Gilgamesh will ask him about life and death and he will come home with a great story. In the Q&A after the performance, Sebastian Lockwood can tell the tale of how the tablets were found in Iraq and how scholars broke the code to reveal the story and its Biblical parallels.